HowTo_CompatibilityIssues

How to deal with compatibility issues

Unfortunately, since KOMA-Script is a rather complex collection of classes and packages, problems can arise when combining third-party packages with KOMA-Script. For many of these problems solutions exist in KOMA-Script. With the package scrhack even an extra KOMA-Script package exists to solve such problems with some packages. In case of compatibility issues between a third party package and the KOMA-Script classes, the ideal solution would of course always be to ask the author of the third party package to support the KOMA-Script classes as well as the standard classes.

Since the LaTeX kernel is developed very intensively since some years, there is also a certain risk of incompatibilities with each update of the LaTeX kernel. These are usually fixed by near-time updates of KOMA-Script classes themselves. It is recommended to check the issue tracker in case of corresponding problems to see if the problem is already known or even closed, and otherwise report a bug yourself.

Some compatibility issues are documented in more detail below:

• How to approximate the printing to the standard classes
• How moderncv style curriculum vitae can be combined with KOMA-Script classes